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And in a case brought by fourteen foreign nationals, the court cast aside the government's argument that because the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is nominally under Cuban sovereignty, American courts lack jurisdiction to entertain legal claims brought by persons who had no say in where the U.S. military chose to detain them.
Fourteen renminbi-clearing banks have been established worldwide.
Fourteen years later, Japan began a massive modernization drive under Emperor Meiji; thirty-seven years after that, its victory in the Russo-Japanese war shocked the world.
It took only two years to privatize some fourteen thousand medium and large enterprises, so that by June 1994 more than 85 percent of Russia’s industrial labor force was working in the private sector.
Fourteen US states have started to do that by authorizing so-called benefit corporations (or B Corps) – businesses that promise to consider more than shareholder value in their strategic decisions.
Each dimension has dominated at different times over the last fourteen years; attached to each are different expectations in Eastern and Western Europe.
If those countries have been egoistic in the past fourteen years, why should candidates believe they would not misuse new decision-making mechanisms to the detriment of small countries--hence the opposition of some candidate countries to creating the post of a European president.
Nevertheless, fourteen civil society activists who attempted to organize a special meeting to address the realities of the Kurdish issue in Syria recently received various sentences on charges of working to undermine national unity.
Fourteen other states have adopted those standards, which therefore cover 40% of the US population.
The first of those fourteen points reads: “Open covenants of peace must be arrived at, after which there will surely be no private international action or rulings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.”
Wilson was unable to get the Treaty of Versailles to reflect his fourteen points fully, although it did include several of them, including the establishment of an association of states that proved to be the forerunner of today’s United Nations.
Fourteen years later, the Decembrist revolt – a movement of poets and army officers to topple Czar Nicholas I and establish a constitutional monarchy – seemed to refute de Maistre’s claim.
Fourteen of the 19 elected members of the central committee are first-time members, most of whom represent the leadership of the 1987 uprising in the occupied territories.
Fourteen countries attended to discuss food price inflation, energy needs, etc.Alas, India’s voice was drowned out, not by China’s attempts to provide medicine and education to Africa, but by the sheer magnitude of Chinese state-owned enterprises’ investments in physical infrastructure.
Women exposed to higher levels of the pesticide DDT before the age of fourteen have a five times higher chances of developing breast cancer when they reach middle age.
Fourteen of his 19 cabinet members are reported to belong to a group promoting pilgrimage tours to the site.
Fourteen years later, during the Plaza Accord negotiations, the Japanese argued for an eventual level of 200-210, while some US Treasury officials thought the final target should be as high as 165-170.
Fourteen years later, “freedom” is the last thing the AKP has delivered.
Upon escaping from a WWII prison camp, he started to climb, first in Vichy, then in the Resistance, the ladder which was to bring him in 1981, and for fourteen years, to the head of the State.
Created in 1948 to help France control the destiny of its colonies, fourteen countries--Benin, Burkina-Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Bissau Guinea, and Chad--maintained the franc zone even after they gained independence decades ago.
Souleymane Abdoulaye showed the judge the sweltering underground cell where, as a boy of fourteen, he was crowded in with 72 other prisoners, only eleven of whom survived the near-starvation regimen.
Among the other Fourteen Points are calls for open covenants – no secret treaties plotting the post-war division of another country’s territory – and for a reduction in trade barriers.
Fourteen percent of the population is aged 65 or older, a figure that is expected to reach 28% by 2035.
The premier and oldest of these unions is composed of the fourteen countries that belong to the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa and the West African Economic and Monetary Union, which both use the CFA franc.
After ChernobylKIEV: Chernobyl, the world’s most notorious nuclear power plant, will be shut down today, fourteen years after it spewed clouds of radioactive dust into the atmosphere.
Fourteen months elapsed between the time Justice Minister Dullah Omar announced the government's intention to establish a commission and its signature into law by President Nelson Mandela.
He had fourteen birds.
She no longer seemed so young, she might be quite fourteen.
"You must be about fourteen then?" he asked, after having gone back to his bread.
So distinguished a lady, and fourteen years older than the young man!
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